Pierre le Turcq, Privateer of Flushing - Van Megen Engraving - 1782
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Original 1782 engraving with the portrait of the privateer captain Pierre le Turcq, in command of the ship De Zeeuw at Flushing (Vlissingen, Zeeland). He is shown with a fur cap, a telescope under his arm and pistols at his belt; behind him his ship, and at the foot of the frame a saber.
Original 1782 engraving with the portrait of the privateer captain Pierre le Turcq, in command of the ship De Zeeuw at Flushing (Vlissingen, Zeeland). He is shown with a fur cap, a telescope under his arm and pistols at his belt; behind him his ship, and at the foot of the frame a saber.
Le Turcq, who died in 1784, was with Nicolaas Jarry the most celebrated of the Zeeland privateers of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780-1784). Engraved by Pieter Willem van Megen after a drawing from life by Jacobus Perkois.
Medium: Copper engraving
Artist / after: Jacobus Perkois (Middelburg, 1756-1804)
Engraver: Pieter Willem van Megen (1750-1785)
Date: 1782
Dimensions: 9.7 x 13.8 in (24.7 x 35 cm)
Condition: Good. Light toning of the paper and a slight wrinkle in the upper left margin
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Original 1782 engraving with the portrait of the privateer captain Pierre le Turcq, in command of the ship De Zeeuw at Flushing (Vlissingen, Zeeland). He is shown with a fur cap, a telescope under his arm and pistols at his belt; behind him his ship, and at the foot of the frame a saber.